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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Clarence Mitchell, (not to mention his famous Clients), is
surely fuming.

He has spent the past couple of weeks, regaling every
Newspaper, journal, broadcaster and Media outlet with his PRESS releases,
ensuring that they are all singing from the same song sheet regarding Kate
McCanns’ “heroic feats” in running the London Marathon.

The pivotal angle of the whole story being that the Mother
of missing Madeleine McCann COMPETED in this year’s London Marathon whilst running
in the shadow of DEATH threats, issued on a Social Networking site and
specifically centred on her Marathon appearance.

Ever since the parents of Madeleine, Kate and Gerry,
received a HUGE payout and front page apology from Express Newspapers in 2008
for their coverage of the case of the missing girl, (despite their being NO
Court case or litigation), the UK MEDIA has been united in its sycophantic,
servile and slavish devotion to the McCann’s each and every whim, as dictated
by their ubiquitous “Spokesperson” Clarence Mitchell.

As concocted by ‘Team McCann’ or their agents, (including
highly paid ‘Private Detectives’, most of whom have subsequently been embroiled
in serious, Criminal activities), over the past few years the UK Press have intermittently
and variously informed us that..........

Not ONE of them had a single iota of credibility or evidence
to substantiate them.

As I have blogged previously, the infamous INDIA sighting,
(at LEAST), was demonstrably FABRICATED.

2013, however, had hitherto seen something of a lean period for Mr.
Mitchell regarding opportunities to get his clients involved in any extensive
Media coverage.

Consequently, ‘Team McCann’, (the ‘affectionate’ term used for their vast
entourage of wealthy backers, business moguls, Legal Eagles and ‘Z’ List
celebrities), must have been utterly ECSTATIC at the rather crass post made by
a lady on her Facebook account.

Commenting on a discussion about Mrs. McCann’s widely
publicised intention to run in the London Marathon, she wrote:-

“Well I am going. Anyone got a gun? BBBanggggg?”

Quite.

Not that it is of any consequence, it should be noted the comment was intended
to be a humorous play on the ‘starting pistol’ scenario, but its connotation
and ambiguity is both OBVIOUS and was intended.

Inarguably, it was a childish, puerile and insensitive
comment, worthy only of disdain.

To properly afford it the contempt it deserved would be to
have completely ignored it, along with the other, multitudinous, potentially
offensive posts made on Social Networking sites about not just the McCann’s,
but anyone and EVERYONE who has ever featured prominently in the public eye

To Clarence Mitchell and the McCann’s, however, (along with
their ever expanding army of watchers, monitors, trolls and Internet spies), this lady's faux pas was pure Manna from Heaven!

The machine quickly went into overdrive......“Marathon gun nut’s threat to kill Kate!”

“Cops Probe Vile Web DEATH Threat to Mum of
missing Madeleine”

“Sick Internet Troll threatens to GUN DOWN
Kate McCann as she runs the London Marathon"

The Tabloids were banging out splashes as
quick as Clarence could type them! Each and every report was accompanied with
the assurance that the Police, New Scotland Yard or the MET were “actively
investigating”....”looking into”.......”conducting inquiries”.....

The most solemn and powerful words, however,
were reserved for Mr. Mitchell and Mrs. McCann themselves:

“This
material has been brought to the attention of the police. One of the posts is
actually a death threat and is being dealt with appropriately”, declared
Mitchell.

According to the Daily STAR, “THE
mother of Madeleine McCann is terrified for her other two children after
receiving sick online death threats”.

Of course, one cannot directly
expect either the McCann’s OR Mitchell to account for the ramblings of the
Media, (even if Clarence DOES dictate them).

However, they CAN be taken to
task for their OWN musings and comments.

ESPECIALLY when they are not only
wildly inaccurate, but are clearly contrived and fabricated in order to gain
wider publicity and benefit from a situation they are arguing is INJURIOUS.

For the RECORD, (and for what you
WON’T be reading in the Press, any day soon):-

The police “investigation” (described by Mitchell as being "dealt with appropriately"), was
entirely limited to, and consisted OF, a single CORDIAL telephone call made to the lady in question at her home by a police officer.

Having quickly availed himself of
the facts surrounding the posting, and having satisfied himself that she was
clearly NOT a “gun nut” or anyone who posed ANY kind of threat to anyone, the
matter was CLOSED.

ALSO, contrary to what is being
widely reported in some tabloids, (and especially elaborated on in a number of blogs
and websites created by and subscribed to by ardent supporters of the
McCann’s), the lady concerned was NOT cautioned, nor was she “warned”, regarding her
behaviour.

It was obviously put to her that
her actions were tactless, childish and unacceptable, points which she fully
agreed with, and she was happy to reassure the officer that there wouldn’t be
any repetition of the posting or any others made of a similar nature.

Mitchell KNOWS that, not by any stretch
of the imagination could the comments be construed as a threat to kill or
even cause harm to Kate McCann. Not in any LEGAL context, as defined by any
Statute, the Offences against the Person’s Act, 1861, and not by any real
inference.

Furthermore he, (along with the McCann’s
themselves), was most unequivocally and without prevarication informed by the
police, subsequent to their conversation with the poster, that there was absolutely
NO danger posed by her, or anyone else, to Kate McCann.

Which rather disparages Kate’s
statement that she is “terrified for her other two children after receiving
sick online death threats”.

I am NOT seeking to excuse,
exonerate or trivialise this ladies behaviour in any way, but this whole
affair DOES, succinctly, illustrate the degree to which Clarence Mitchell will conceive
and propagate false information and fabricated stories for the McCann’s
benefit.

Of course, that is both his
vocation and his speciality, skills honed in his role as the Government’s Media
Monitoring Unit, for both the Labour AND Conservative administrations, (ANYONE
who bats so willingly for both sides of the political spectrum has to be viewed with some trepidation in
my opinion, but I digress!).

AND, of course, were it the fact
that his most famous clients were Celebrities or Socialites, one could forgive
him his propensity for inventing and concocting, indeed, even EXPECT it of him.

BUT.......despite their obvious fame
and recognition, the McCann’s are NOT Celebrities.

They are, ostensibly, the distraught
parents of a little girl who was abducted in 2007 and for whom, (according to them), they are
actively and incessantly searching.

And whilst Kate McCann’s proposal to run the London Marathon
for the Charity for which she is an Ambassador was admirable enough, (as were
the efforts of the 36,000 OTHER participants), her venture did not warrant the unprecedented
and extensive level of Media coverage, attention and adulation that she was due to
be afforded, courtesy of Mitchell’s PRESS releases, all based on a fable.

Coverage and adulation she WOULD, unquestionably, have
received with photo spreads and tales of stoicism and heroic bravery galore in every newspaper, were it not for one, unforeseen factor:-

Almost 3,300 miles away, TRUE bravery was being exhibited by
many at a Marathon where a TRUE threat to kill......... was only all too real.

Consequently, preoccupying the entire World’s Media with tales
of barbaric atrocity and evil.